Vision testing among children aged 3–5 years in the United States, 2016–2017

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• Personal Author:
  Black, Lindsey I. ; Boersma, Pete ; Jen, Alicia
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Division of Health Interview Statistics.
• Description:
  Key findings
  
  Data from the National Health Interview Survey
  
  • During 2016–2017, 63.5% of children aged 3–5 years had ever had their vision tested by a doctor or other health professional.
  
  • Hispanic children (58.6%) were less likely to have ever had their vision tested compared with non-Hispanic white children (65.4%).
  
  • Receipt of a vision test increased with increasing parental educational attainment.
  
  • Children with private health insurance (66.7%) were more likely than both children with public coverage (61.2%) and uninsured children (43.3%) to have ever had a vision test.
  
  • Children who did not receive a well-child visit in the past 12 months were less likely to have ever had a vision test compared with children that did receive a well-child visit in the past 12 months.
  
  Childhood vision screenings may provide early detection of vision disorders and opportunities for subsequent treatment (1). The United States Preventive Service Task Force recommends that children aged 3–5 years receive a vision screening at least once to detect amblyopia (lazy eye), or its risk factors (2). This report examines the percentage of children aged 3–5 years who have ever had a vision test by selected characteristics using data from the vision supplement included in the 2016–2017 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).
  
  Suggested citation: Black LI, Boersma P, Jen A. Vision testing among children aged 3–5 years in the United States, 2016–2017. NCHS Data Brief, no 353. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2019.
  
  CS311703
  
  db353-h.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Amblyopia/diagnosis Child, Preschool Infant Mass Screening Refractive Errors/diagnosis Strabismus/diagnosis Vision Screening Visual Acuity
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  7 Pages
• Issue:
  353
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
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